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Why Trump's tariff chaos makes sense (big picture) (moneymacro.rocks)
9 points by erikig 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


If Scott Bessant resigns this week, I guess we can ignore this blog post.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193634/donald-trump-treasury-sc...


> due to everyone wanting to export to the US to obtain Dollars, the US has a truly unique negotiating position in a trade war

Seems like the plan relies on the key assumption that this will not change. But why is this the case?





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